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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown in a portfolio to be exhibited early this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter of 1933-34, spent three and a half months in a Nazi political prison on a charge of high treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enemy of the State | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Grand Old Men of world science. Last week he visited the U. S. as a sort of goodwill envoy of British learning, making speeches on the philosophy of science and its mission in a disquieted world. This week Sir Richard is scheduled to speak at the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Richmond, where he will undoubtedly be lionized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I've Been So Busy | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warmer World | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...most calculations, Christ was born in 5 B. C. There is no evidence that the date was December 25. As Christmas evolved in early Christian times, it was strongly influenced by the more ancient Roman winter feast of Saturnalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Where Is He? | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

This is the time of a dark winter in the heart

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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